While the government contract to date has been pro forma–the University of Mississippi/Oxford has won the contract every year since the late 1960s and MAPS’ and Prof. Lyle Craker’s successful lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to effectively break Ol’ Miss’ monopoly on cultivating cannabis for research and approximately five Compassionate IND patients, and allow the University of Massachusetts/Amherst to cultivate research and therapeutic grade cannabis, is being appealed by DEA–competition can only help science, and the free market place of ideas and research.

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WSJ: WHITE HOUSE CZAR CALLS FOR END TO 'WAR ON DRUGS'

by Allen St. Pierre, Former NORML Executive Director
Posted on May 14, 2009June 15, 2022

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S. is fighting “a war on drugs,” a move that would underscore a shift favoring treatment over incarceration in trying to reduce illicit drug use.

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U.S. Attorney General Says Justice Department Will No Longer Interfere With States' Medical Pot Policies

by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
Posted on February 26, 2009June 11, 2020

Earlier this month, new U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder promised a clean break from the policies of the Bush administration. Yesterday, during a live interview on C-Span, he affirmed that this change includes ending the DEA raids of state-authorized medical marijuana providers!

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The Public Says "No More DEA Raids!" The President Says "No More DEA Raids!" So Why Are There More DEA Raids?

by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
Posted on February 5, 2009June 11, 2020

Nearly three-quarters of the American public agrees with this position. According to a new national poll of 1,053 likely voters by Zogby International and commissioned by the NORML Foundation, seventy-two percent of voters say that President Obama should “stop federal raids against medical marijuana providers in the 13 states where medical marijuana has become legal.”

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DEA-Ja Vu: Drug Enforcement Agency Overrules It's Own Administrative Law Judge — Says NIDA's Marijuana Monopoly Must Continue

by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
Posted on January 12, 2009June 11, 2020

Just days after November’s Presidential election I outlined various ways that President-Elect Obama could use the power of the executive branch to shape U.S. marijuana policy.

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Roll Call Is NORML!

by Allen St. Pierre, Former NORML Executive Director
Posted on January 3, 2009June 11, 2020

Since the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, despite the government’s best, but utterly feckless efforts to suppress cannabis culture and use in America, the ‘buzz’ in Washington D.C. and nationwide these days about alternatives to cannabis prohibition is palpable.

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Medical Cannabis Activists' Gift To DEA: A Lump Of Coal

by Allen St. Pierre, Former NORML Executive Director
Posted on December 26, 2008June 14, 2022

Activists called on “President-elect Obama to keep his campaign promise and end the raids on the medical marijuana dispensaries here in California. To stop this wave of ‘domestic terrorism’ by President Bush’s Drug Enforcement Administration against California medical marijuana patients and providers.”

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California Cops To Feds: Please Help Us Break The Law!

by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
Posted on December 19, 2008June 11, 2020

Perhaps if this sort of behavior was taking place in a foreign country, the US news media would be investigating the issue seriously. But instead the guilty parties are our own police officers, so the mainstream press simply sweeps the story under the rug.

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